[K12OSN] Fl_Teachers_Tool

[David Trask]

"Robert Arkiletian" <robark at gmail.com> writes:
>BTW I have been thinking about #2. This is required for schools with a
>powerful ltsp server running multiple classrooms. I don't think it's
>possible to do this properly without filtering by mac addresses.
>Imagine a student enrolled in 2 different IT classes in different
>blocks. If teacher Smith has the student in block A and teacher Jones
>has the student in block B then if the filtering system is simply
>based on groups, it will fail since he will show up in Smiths block B
>classlist. So, for the next version of Fl_TT, I thought of having a
>simple flat file with room #'s associated with MAC addesses. If I can
>poll and associate a mac address to an ip I can filter the list by
>reading the flat file. (Doesn't nmap do this?)
>The advantage of this solution is that if the labs are being used with
>generic logins (comp1, comp2, etc) it will still work.


I'm under the impression that this might be able to integrate with LDAP. 
LDAP will become the default authentication mechanism for Edubuntu.  

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100